More basic Revise usage with module

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Hello, I’m having trouble getting Revise to track changes to my module. I have using Revise in my startup.jl, and I’ve checked that it is indeed being loaded on startup. I then try:

(v1.1) pkg> generate MyPackage
Generating project MyPackage:
    MyPackage/Project.toml
        MyPackage/src/MyPackage.jl

(v1.1) pkg> dev MyPackage
[ Info: resolving package specifier `MyPackage` as a directory at `~/Desktop/MyPackage`.
 Resolving package versions...
   Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.1/Project.toml`
     [79904e14] + MyPackage v0.1.0 [`../../../Desktop/MyPackage`]
       Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.1/Manifest.toml`
         [79904e14] + MyPackage v0.1.0 [`../../../Desktop/MyPackage`]

julia> using MyPackage
[ Info: Precompiling MyPackage [79904e14-be3a-11e9-0fa2-d3186fc9e44a]

julia> MyPackage.greet()
Hello World!

At this point, I edit MyPackage.jl to add a function foo. Then:

julia> MyPackage.foo()
ERROR: UndefVarError: foo not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./sysimg.jl:13
  [2] top-level scope at none:0

julia> revise(MyPackage)
true

julia> MyPackage.foo()
ERROR: UndefVarError: foo not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./sysimg.jl:13
  [2] top-level scope at none:0
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Most likely Revise is not looking in ~/Desktop/MyPackage, where you generated your package. You can push it to your LOAD_PATH using push!(LOAD_PATH, expanduser("~/Desktop/")).

After reading from several sources, it seems like the recommended option is to develop in ~/.julia/dev. This is what I have included in my ~/.julia/config/startup.jl file, so that I can generate a package and use Revise every time I start Julia automatically:

push!(LOAD_PATH, expanduser("~/.julia/dev/"))

atreplinit() do repl
    try
        @eval using Revise
        @async Revise.wait_steal_repl_backend()
    catch
        @warn "Package Revise not found"
    end
end
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Hmm I tried adding push!(LOAD_PATH, expanduser("~/Desktop/")) to startup.jl (before using Revise, in case that matters) and it still doesn’t seem to work:

julia> LOAD_PATH
4-element Array{String,1}:
 "@"
  "@v#.#"
   "@stdlib"
    "/Users/pearl/Desktop/"

(v1.1) pkg> dev MyPackage
[ Info: resolving package specifier `MyPackage` as a directory at `~/Desktop/MyPackage`.
 Resolving package versions...
   Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.1/Project.toml`
    [no changes]
      Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.1/Manifest.toml`
       [no changes]

julia> using MyPackage
[ Info: Recompiling stale cache file /Users/pearl/.julia/compiled/v1.1/MyPackage/zIxTC.ji for MyPackage [79904e14-be3a-11e9-0fa2-d3186fc9e44a]

julia> MyPackage.foo()
ERROR: UndefVarError: foo not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./sysimg.jl:13
  [2] top-level scope at none:0

Then define foo:

julia> MyPackage.foo()
ERROR: UndefVarError: foo not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] getproperty(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./sysimg.jl:13
  [2] top-level scope at none:0
4

There should be no need to modify LOAD_PATH or explicitly call revise. Load Revise first, then load your package then it should work.

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5

Curiously, it does work for me when I remove using Revise from startup.jl and call it in the REPL instead. Can anyone else reproduce this problem?

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Did you do like the docs describe?

https://timholy.github.io/Revise.jl/stable/config/#Using-Revise-by-default-1

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Ah no, I completely missed that, thank you! Would it be possible to make the link to that page on Home · Revise.jl a little more insistent, for those of us who brashly think “I know how to add things to startup.jl”?

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8

I think that mentioning the possibility at the very beginning of the docs would help, since this is the configuration almost everyone uses. Perhaps open an issue, or better, make a PR at the Revise.jl repository.

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I’m not so sure about this. Personally, I like to using Revise manually as I don’t always need it (and am kind of obsessed about startup times :smiley:)

But I agree that having this more prominently placed wouldn’t hurt. I remember that I also put using Revise in my startup.jl at some point and wondered why it didn’t work as expected.

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Done: https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl/pull/329

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